Arizona Controlled Substance Law
<h2> <center> United States of America v. Thvoughn Lynden Curry and Alexis Daneen Curry </h2> </center>
Phoenix, Arizona, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with conspiracy to commit health Care Fraud. Reported by: <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Kent Morlan</a> Thvoughn Lynden Curry and Alexis Daneen Curry defrauded AHCCCS through “1 Family Clinic, LLC,” their purported outpatient behavioral h... More...
$ (06-09-2026 - AZ)United States of America v. Peter Biar Ajak and Abraham Chol Keech
Phoenix, Arizona, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Conspiracy to Violate the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and Conspiracy to Violate the Export Control Reform Act (ECRA). “From a suburb of our Nation’s capital, Peter Biar Ajak conspired to export U.S. weaponry to South Sudan, where he planned to lead a coup and install himself in power,” said Assistant Attor... More...
$ (02-09-2026 - AZ)<h1> United States of America v. Eric Thomas Scionti </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Phoenix, Arizona criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Illegally Possessing Firearms and Animal Crushing </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Tempe Man Sentenced to 47 Months in Prison for Illegally Possessing Firearms and Animal Crushing </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Eric T... More...
$0 (02-20-2025 - AZ)<h1> United States of America v. Ahmed Mahad Mohamed, Abdi Yemeni Hussein </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Tucson, Arizona criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with Conspiring to Travel to the Middle East to Fight for ISIS </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Two Tucson Men Sentenced for Conspiring to Travel to the Middle East to Fight for ISIS </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Ahmed Ma... More...
$0 (01-22-2025 - AZ)<h1> United States of America v. Julius Darnell Dixon </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> <br> Phoenix, Arizona criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Sending Drugs to Federal Inmates </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Phoenix Man Sentenced to 51 Months in Prison for Sending Drugs to Federal Inmates </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Julius Darnell Dixon, 54, of Phoe... More...
$0 (01-13-2025 - AZ)<h1> United States of America v. Yvette Porras-Ochoa </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Phoenix, Arizona criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged withDrug Trafficking and Money Laundering </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Leader of Child Sexual Abuse Ring Sentenced to 50 Years in Prison</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Yvette Porras-Ochoa, 42, of Wittmann, pleaded guilty t... More...
$0 (12-10-2024 - AZ)<h1> United States of America v. \Nestor Hernandez-Morales </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Tucson, Arizona criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine, Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of Drug Trafficking Activity, and Attempted Smuggling of Firearms to Promote Drug Trafficking Activity </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Mesa Man Sen... More...
$0 (11-25-2024 - AZ)<h1> United States of America v. Michael Pengchung Lee </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Tucson, Arizona criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Mass Shooting Threat at University of Arizona </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Defendant Sentenced to 16 Months in Prison for Mass Shooting Threat at University of Arizona</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Michael Pengchun... More...
$0 (07-02-2024 - AZ)<h1> United States of America v. Whitney Adams </h1>
<b><h2><center><font color="red"><i> Tucson, Arizona Criminal Defense Lawyer represented the Defendant for Money Laundering Role in Online Scams</b></h2></center></i></font color="red"></i><br> <br> – Whitney Adams, 27, of Hagerstown, Maryland, was sentenced by United States District Judge John C. Hinderaker to 48 months in prison and ordered to pay over $1 million in restitution to 17 vi... More...
$0 (01-09-2024 - AZ)United States of America v. Gerardo Hernandez
Tucson, Arizona criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegal importation of Fentanyl.<br> <br> On December 4, 2022, Gerardo Hernandez, ate 40, of Tucson, a United States citizen, entered the United States at the Mariposa Port of Entry in Nogales, from Mexico. He was a passenger in the front seat of a vehicle that contained 49.9 kilograms of fentanyl concealed inside the v... More...
$0 (11-08-2023 - AZ)United States of America v. Jose Manuel Najera-Fuentes
Phoenix, Arizona criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with failure to register as a sex offender in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2250(a).<br> <br> <br> In accordance with the Bail Reform Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3142(f), a detention hearing has been submitted to the Court. I have considered all the factors set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3142(g). I conclude that the following facts are establis... More...
$0 (06-08-2023 - AZ)United States of America v. Steve Lugo Leon
Phoenix, Arizona criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession with intent to distrubute 40 Grams or More of a Mixture or Substance Containing a Detectable Amount of Fentanyl. <br> <br> Leon's co-defendant, Rafael Ivan Valenzuela Chairez, 20, of Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced on the same day by Judge Snow to 18 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised relea... More...
$0 (06-01-2023 - AZ)United States of America v. Darris Manero Vincent
Phoenix, Arizona criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute meth.<br> <table><br> <h1><br> <center><br> <P><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.morelawtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Phoenix_AZ_Fed.jpg" alt="Federal Courthouse - Phoenix, Arizona"><br> <P><br> Federal Courthouse - Phoenix, Arizona</a><br> <P><br> <a font="red" href="https://ww... More...
$0 (03-08-2023 - AZ)Casey G. v. Department of Child Safety, A.D., C.G., Intervenors
Phoenix, Arizona family law lawyer represented Defendant appealing an order terminating his parental rights as to the children, A.D. and C.G.<br> <br> <br> ¶2 In September 2020, the Department of Child Safety ("DCS") filed a dependency petition as to A.D. and C.G. due to Father's alleged substance abuse and domestic violence. DCS alleged Father had a current and long history of abusing substances... More...
$0 (12-13-2022 - AZ)United States of America v. Brianna Contreras
Phoenix, Arizona criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine, Possession with Intent to Distribute 50 Grams or More of a Mixture or Substance Containing a Detectable Amount of Methamphetamine, Importation of Methamphetamine.<br> <br> 21:841(a)(1) and 841 (b)(1)(A)(viii) - Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine<br> (1)... More...
$0 (03-09-2022 - AZ)Kathryn L. D. Department of Child Safety, S.L.
Phoenix, Arizona family law lawyer represented Defendant in a termination of parental rights to her daughter.<br> <br> <br> ¶2 In April 2019, police responded to a call regarding an ongoing domestic violence incident involving Mother and S.L.'s father ("Father"). Father fled the scene before police arrived. Mother had a broken nose and was hospitalized. The Department of Child Services ("DCS" or ... More...
$0 (06-28-2022 - AZ)United States of America v. Andrew Walsh
Phoenix, AZ: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.<br> <br> On August 28, 2021, federal agents executed a search warrant at Andrew Walsh's, 43, of Phoenix, Arizona, residence. At that time, Walsh was in possession of 496.9 grams of a mixture of methamphetamine intended for distribution.<br> <br> The Federal Bureau of Inves... More...
$0 (10-27-2021 - AZ)United States of America v. Wei Sun
Phoenix, Arizona violation of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) criminal defense lawyer represented Wei Sun, who was charged with violating the act.<br> <br> Sun was employed in Tucson for 10 years as an electrical engineer with Raytheon Missiles and Defense. Raytheon Missiles and Defense develops and produces missile systems for use by the United States military. During his employment with the c... More...
$0 (11-18-2020 - AZ)United States of America v. Lana Leshinsky
Tucson, AZ - The United States of America charged Lana Leshinsky with distribution of fentanyl resulting in death.<br> <br> Lana Leshinsky, 43, of Tucson, Ariz., was to 10 years of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release. Leshinsky previously pleaded guilty to distribution of fentanyl resulting in death. <br> <br> On July 13, 2017, Leshinsky sold fentanyl powder to the vic... More...
$0 (01-09-2020 - AZ)Jorge Alejandro Rojas v. Federal Aviation Administration
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.azd.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Phoenix.jpg?itok=CVWODP2F"><br> </center><br> <br> Plaintiff Jorge Rojas filed several requests under the<br> Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552 (FOIA), and the<br> Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. § 552a, with the Federal<br> Aviation Administration (FAA), seeking records related to<br> ... More...
$0 (10-24-2019 - AZ)United States of America v. Katherine Kealoha and Louis M. Kealoha
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://skcriminaldefense.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/AUSA-us-district-court-los-angeles.jpg"><br> </center><br> Honolulu, HI - Former Honolulu Prosecutor Katherine Kealoha, Former Police Chief Louis Kealoha Plead Guilty<br> <br> Former Honolulu Deputy Prosecutor Katherine Kealoha pleaded guilty in federal court to bank fraud, aggravated identity theft and drug... More...
$0 (10-24-2019 - AZ)United States of America v. Erik Allen Ketelaar
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.azd.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Phoenix.jpg?itok=CVWODP2F"><br> </center><br> Phoenix, AZ - Phoenix Tax Preparer Sentenced to Prison for Stealing His Clients’ Tax Refunds<br> <br> Erik Allen Ketelaar, 35, was sentenced to 36 months in prison and three years of supervised release. The Court also ordered Ketelaar to pay $573,0... More...
$0 (09-20-2019 - AZ)United States of America v. Jaysen Reuben Lopez
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.azd.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Phoenix.jpg?itok=CVWODP2F"><br> </center><br> Phoenix, AZ - Casa Blanca Man Sentenced to Over 6 Years for Possessing Mehtamphetamine with Intent to Distribute<br> <br> Jaysen Reuben Lopez, 26, of Casa Blanca, Ariz., was sentenced to six and a half years in prison followed by four years of superv... More...
$0 (08-28-2019 - AZ)United States of America v. Kevin Dean McCoy
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.azd.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Phoenix.jpg?itok=CVWODP2F"><br> </center><br> Phoenix, AZ - Multiple Arizona Residents Sentenced to Prision for Using the Dark Web to Distribute Heroin, Methamphetamine, and Cocaine Throughout the United States<br> <br> Kevin Dean McCoy, 28, of Tucson, Ariz., was sentenced by Senior U.S. Distri... More...
$0 (08-28-2019 - AZ)United States of America v. Maria Dawn Goldtooth
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.azd.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Phoenix.jpg?itok=CVWODP2F"><br> </center><br> Phoenix, AZ - Laveen Woman Sentenced to Five Years in Federal Prison for Selling Methamphetamine<br> <br> Maria Dawn Goldtooth, 44, of Laveen, Ariz. was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 60 months in prison, followed by a term of th... More...
$0 (04-09-2019 - AZ)United States of America v. Jose Lopez-Alvarado
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.azd.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Phoenix.jpg?itok=CVWODP2F"><br> </center><br> Phoenix, AZ - Last Drug Organization Member Sentenced to Prison for Distributing Heroin<br> <br> The last of five members of a Drug Trafficking Organization which distributed heroin throughout Phoenix was sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge Su... More...
$0 (03-17-2019 - AZ)UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. JESSICA BRIDGET SOTO
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Seal_of_the_United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Ninth_Circuit.svg/150px-Seal_of_the_United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Ninth_Circuit.svg.png"><br> <h2> <font color="red"><h2> </font> </h2><br> </center><br> A joint investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and Home... More...
$0 (02-13-2019 - AZ)UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. JESSICA BRIDGET SOTO
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Seal_of_the_United_States_Courts%2C_Ninth_Judicial_Circuit.svg/300px-Seal_of_the_United_States_Courts%2C_Ninth_Judicial_Circuit.svg.png"><br> <h2> <font color="red"><h2> </font> </h2><br> </center><br> A joint investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and Homeland Securit... More...
$0 (02-10-2019 - AZ)UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. PRISCILLA DAYDEE VALDEZ, aka Priscilla D. Valdez
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Seal_of_the_United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Ninth_Circuit.svg/300px-Seal_of_the_United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Ninth_Circuit.svg.png"><br> <h2> <font color="red"><h2> </font> </h2><br> </center><br> Defendant pleaded guilty, without a plea agreement, to one count of knowingly attempting ... More...
$0 (12-22-2018 - AZ)United States of America v. Jose Ramon Cebreros-Sanchez
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.azd.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Phoenix.jpg?itok=CVWODP2F"><br> </center><br> Phoenix, AZ - Drug Trafficker Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison<br> <br> Jose Ramon Cebreros-Sanchez, a legal permanent resident from Mexico, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Diane J. Humetewa to 360 months in prison. On July 17, 2018, Cebreros-Sa... More...
$0 (12-09-2018 - AZ)United States of America v. Vilawoe Aku Boadu and Zinka Sisic
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.azd.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Phoenix.jpg?itok=CVWODP2F"><br> </center><br> Phoenix, AZ - Pharmacist and Pharmacy Technician Sentenced to Prison for Diverting Hundreds of Thousands ff Opioids<br> <br> Pharmacist Vilawoe Aku Boadu, 39, of Peoria, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 120 months in pri... More...
$0 (11-30-2018 - AZ)United States of America v. Andrew May
Tucson, AZ - Tucson Resident Sentenced to 36 Months in Prison for His Role in an Auto Loan Fraud Scheme<br> <br> Andrew May, 46, of Tucson, Ariz., was sentenced to 36 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Rosemary Marquez. May had previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and bank fraud. <br> <br> The evidence established that May, through his shell co... More...
$0 (11-08-2018 - AZ)United States of America v. Dennis Dickey
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://arizonadailyindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/federal-court.png"><br> </center><br> Dennis Dickey, 37, of Tucson, Ariz., pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor violation of U.S. Forest Service regulations for igniting the Sawmill Fire, which caused more than $8 million worth of damage in April 2017. The Court scheduled a sentencing hearing for October ... More...
$0 (09-29-2018 - AZ)Alec Marsh v. J. Alexander's, L.L.C.
Congress enacted the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) in 1938 in response to a national concern that the price of American development was the exploitation of an entire class of low-income workers. President Roosevelt, who pushed for fair labor legislation, famously declared: “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provi... More...
$0 (09-19-2018 - AZ)UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. DENISE ROBERTSON <table> <td>
The United States Postal Service (USPS) is charged with providing secure and reliable delivery of the mails to “bind the Nation together” through the “correspondence of the people.” 39 U.S.C. § 101. Robertson worked as a USPS letter carrier assigned to the USPS Arcadia Station in Phoenix, Arizona. This case began when the USPS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) began receiving complain... More...
$0 (07-27-2018 - AZ)STATE OF ARIZONA v. VINCENT JOSEPH GUARINO <table> <td>
To secure membership in the Aryan Brotherhood, a criminal gang, Defendant Vincent Guarino (“Guarino”) sought to murder Chad Rowe. Accompanied by his brother Frank Guarino (“Frank”), Guarino went to a home in north Phoenix. Guarino entered, found Chad, and brought him out at gunpoint. The three men drove away in a truck. Chad’s body was later found in a residential street. He had bee... More...
$0 (05-13-2018 - AZ)Lisa Demargee v. Laura Pederson; Amy Van Ness
As this court has stated repeatedly, families have a “wellelaborated<br> constitutional right to live together without<br> governmental interference.” Wallis v. Spencer, 202 F.3d<br> 1126, 1136 (9th Cir. 2000); accord Kirkpatrick v. Cty. of<br> Washoe, 843 F.3d 784, 789 (9th Cir. 2016) (en banc); Burke<br> v. Cty. of Alameda, 586 F.3d 725, 731 (9th Cir. 2009); Rogers<br> v. Cty. of San Joaquin... More...
$0 (04-09-2018 - AZ)United States of America v. Ahmed Alahmedalabdaloklah
Phoenix, AZ - Syrian National Convicted for Conspiring to Kill American Soldiers in Iraq<br> <br> Ahmed Alahmedalabdaloklah, a Syrian national who had been living in Iraq, was convicted by a jury, following a six-week trial, of conspiring and supporting the 1920s Revolutionary Brigades, an insurgent group that planted road-side bombs to attack and kill American soldiers in Iraq. A jury convicted ... More...
$0 (03-17-2018 - AZ)Shyann P. v. Department of Child Safety, C.C., H.C.
¶1 Shyann P. ("Mother") appeals the superior court's order ruling<br> her two children dependent. Because substantial evidence supports the<br> court's decision, we affirm.<br> FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND<br> ¶2 Mother has a history of methamphetamine abuse, which<br> caused the State to remove the children from her care in 2014. The<br> Department of Child Safety ("DCS") returned the childr... More...
$0 (01-04-2018 - AZ)Alice C. v Department of Child Safety
¶1 Alice C. ("Mother") appeals the superior court's order<br> terminating her parental rights to her daughter. For the following reasons,<br> we affirm.<br> FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY<br> ¶2 Mother is the biological mother of A.C. (born in May 2013).1<br> Mother started using drugs when she was 17 and has used marijuana,<br> methamphetamine, and opiates. Over the years, she sought treatment on... More...
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